Rolfson

It is alleged that the plaintiffs and appellees are part Indian blood of the Quinaielt Indian Tribe residing in Grays Harbor county; that plaintiffs have always been recognized as such by the Quinaielt Indians; that they belong to the Lower Chehalis branch of the Quinaielt Tribe; that said plaintiffs belong to and are associated with and affiliated with the associated bands and tribes of fish-eating Indians of the Pacific Coast and Western Washington. The court awarded the allotments prayed for and thus, in effect, found that the plaintiffs were Lower Chehalis Indians. It appears from the evidence that the appellee Lizzie Rolfson was born in 1870 of white father, and a Chehalis (Upper or Lower) Indian mother, on her father’s homestead ; that in 1887 she married a white man named Smith; and that two plaintiffs, Alvin Smith and Eugene Smith, are her sons by' this marriage. In 1903 she married another white man, and in 1907, after his death, married a third husband, a white man. In 1918 she made an application to the Quinaielt Indians for enrollment, together with her children and grandchildren, on the ground that she was a member of the Chehalis Tribe of Indians, and also made…